Booths full of vintage clothes, vendors from across the region and crowds of people searching for the perfect new-old item will gather this weekend at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Grayslake.
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After a storm delay, the DuPage County Fair will reopen Saturday with fair weather and crowds strolling down the midway, vendors slinging giant bags of kettle corn, little kids petting adorable pigs and sunflowers popping nearly everywhere you look.
In a highly urbanized area, where working family farms and barnyard animals have all but disappeared from the landscape, the county fair still preserves a sweet slice of rural life.
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